쉐도잉 연습: What is "The Thinker" actually thinking about? - Noah Charney - YouTube로 영어 말하기 배우기

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A figure perches, hunched in reflection.
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But this canonical sculpture isn't just contemplation incarnate.
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French sculptor Auguste Rodin intended it to represent a specific person— and fit into a much larger piece featuring the fiery pits of Hell— a project that obsessed him during the last decades of his life.
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So, who was “The Thinker” and what was he actually thinking?
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Rodin's path to renown was rocky.
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He grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Paris, applied to the esteemed school of fine arts, and was rejected three separate times.
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After several years working as a craftsman, he submitted his first sculpture to Paris’ Salon— and was denied.
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It wasn't until 1877, when he was 35 and fresh off a visit to Italy, dazzled by the Renaissance sculptures on display, that Rodin completed his first major work.
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However, critics accused him of casting the lifelike sculpture directly from the model.
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But he hadn’t, and other artists vouched for him.
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As the controversy concluded, however, Rodin drastically shifted his style.
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Rather than render academically realistic forms, he began creating rougher, more expressive surfaces.
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Advances in camera technology had recently made it possible to capture perfect likeness, but Rodin argued that artistic renderings, though less precise, were more truthful.
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Like artists helming the burgeoning movements of Cubism, Abstraction, and Impressionism, Rodin was poised to modernize sculpture, lending new life to classical forms.
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And in 1880, he received his life-defining commission: a monumental doorway for a new French museum intended to echo the “Gates of Paradise” by Renaissance sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti.
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Rodin proposed its antithesis: "The Gates of Hell,” a swirling, infernal composition featuring over 200 tormented souls.
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It was inspired by Dante Alighieri’s “Inferno,” a 14th-century poetic journey through the nine circles of Hell and its doomed inhabitants’ downfalls.
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Rodin began “The Gates” in clay, sculpting small, interlocking figures, his studio filling with fragments to be rearranged, combined, or enlarged as independent works.
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Breaking with tradition, he left visible traces of the creative process.
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However, the museum was never built.
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And the project became a sprawling obsession of endless revision.
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But it was one that would yield some of Rodin’s greatest sculptures— individual elements from “The Gates” that were isolated, refined, and scaled up.
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Like many artists, Rodin had a team of studio assistants who were talented in their own right.
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For “The Gates,” he favored an ancient technique, the lost-wax method, to go from clay to bronze.
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For each sculpture, his team made various molds, beginning with plaster and moving into hollow wax replicas they’d coat and heat, melting away the wax, before pouring molten bronze in.
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Finally, they’d break the outer shell to reveal the solid metal sculpture within.
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Complex compositions were cast in sections and soldered together.
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Then, Rodin’s team would finish the surface, applying a chemical patina.
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Within “The Gates of Hell,” forms described in Dante’s “Inferno” writhed in sin-struck anguish: lovers Paolo and Francesca grappling eternally in forbidden lust and political traitor Count Ugolino cannibalizing his sons in his final desperate moments.
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Rodin also found infernal inspiration in other works, like the carnal themes explored in a poetry collection by Charles Baudelaire.
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But above all of this hellish chaos was to be a single seated figure— not just any man, but the author of “Inferno,” Dante, himself, pondering the suffering below, considering human nature’s great pitfalls, the weight bearing down on his fist.
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Rodin originally called him “The Poet,” then “The Thinker.” First cast on its own in 1888, “The Thinker” became a sensation.
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Out of context, the figure came to be seen less as Dante wrestling with sin and damnation, and more of an everyman; a universal symbol of the human mind’s ability to reflect, doubt, and create; or even France itself, striving to balance its values.
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In 1904, a life-sized “Thinker” was installed in public— not overlooking Hell, but crowning a cultural monument.
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And it soon became one of the world’s most famous sculptures.
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But much as “The Thinker” remains eternally consumed by contemplation, Rodin’s “Gates of Hell” remain unfinished.
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Despite 37 years of work, the first bronze cast of “The Gates” was completed nearly a decade after his death.

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이번 수업에서는 노아 차니의 유튜브 강의 "The Thinker가 실제로 무엇을 생각하고 있을까요?"를 중심으로, 영어 듣기 및 회화 연습을 진행합니다. 강의의 내용은 오귀스트 로댕의 조각상 '생각하는 사람'과 관련된 배경 이야기와 그의 예술적 여정을 다루고 있습니다. 이 내용을 통해 우리는 여러 가지 말을 표현하고, 듣기 능력을 개선하며, 일본의 고전 예술과 현대 예술의 교차점을 탐구할 수 있습니다.

주요 어휘 및 구문

  • contemplate - 숙고하다
  • obsessed - 집착하다
  • inferno - 지옥
  • sculpture - 조각상
  • artistic renderings - 예술적 표현
  • monumental - 기념비적인
  • symbol - 상징
  • creative process - 창작 과정

연습 팁

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